Plans to build America's tallest skyscraper are taking shape in the unlikely metropolis of Oklahoma City.
The real estate company's developers are tweaking already ambitious plans to build hundreds of feet of Bricktown Tower's boardwalk, bringing the building's height to 1,907 feet, making it the tallest in the country. It becomes a building. Oklahoma City Free Press reported.
“This symbolic height honors the year Oklahoma was admitted as the 46th state of the United States,” Matteson Capital said in a statement.
In the company's original application, the tallest of the building's four towers would reach 1,750 feet, making it the second tallest building in the country after Manhattan's Freedom Tower.
Matheson Capital said Monday that it intends to request changes from the city's Zoning Commission regarding construction of the megaproject. If approved, the structure will be the fifth tallest building in the world.
Plans for the structure include three towers, each approximately 345 feet tall, and a fourth tower, 1,907 feet high, that would jut into the sky and dominate the otherwise unremarkable Oklahoma City skyline. doing.
The mixed-use project will occupy 5 million square feet. Plans include 1,776 residential units, two Hyatt hotels, condominiums, and 110,000 square feet of space for commercial and community uses.
The top floor of the skyscraper will include a restaurant and bar, as well as an observation deck, according to Matteson Capital.
But city officials told the Oklahoma City Free Press that the company needs city officials to rezone the property, rather than simply requesting a change.
Oklahoma City is home to approximately 680,000 people according to the 2020 census. fastest growing city in americaLast year, it became the 20th most populous city in the country.
